With a plop, the pebbles splashed on the surface of the water.

The motorboat really slowed down, and a man who looked like a school officer stuck out his head and scolded: "Niang Xipi! Who dares to cause trouble here? ”

When Zhao Zilong heard this, his heart suddenly felt unhappy, but in the current situation, he didn't want to get too involved, and was about to find the steps to go down, so he responded loudly on the bank of the river: "There is a situation here!" ”

The motorboat drove in the direction of Zhao Zilong, and because the waterline was very shallow, they even leaned close to Zhao Zilong.

"What's going on?" The school officer, who spoke with a Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, asked loudly.

"School seat! There's a situation over there. Zhao Zilong pointed into the distance.

"What's the situation?" The school officer looked around, but didn't find anything, and couldn't help but be a little impatient, "Let's just say it here, we are going to Xuzhou." ”

"I found out that there were river bandits," Zhao Zilong said word by word, "and they robbed a group of vendors." ”

"What?" When the school officer heard this, his face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "You mean, they robbed a group of vendors?" ”

Zhao Zilong nodded, and the school officer took out a flashlight from his pocket.

"How many of them, I mean how many vendors?" The school officer didn't inquire about the situation of the river bandits, and asked bluntly.

"It's a vendor, there are eleven or twelve people." Zhao Zilong thought about it and replied truthfully.

"It's bad," the school official slapped his thigh, "do you know, what are their eleven or two vendors with Jiangnan Fuzhou accents doing in the north?" ”

"I don't know." Zhao Zilong couldn't help but be stunned, but looking at the other party's anxious appearance, he explained: "I only saw that they brought an empty wooden box, and later it seemed to have been overturned by the old marijuana. ”

"Everybody come with me."

After listening to the whole situation of Zhao Zilong, the school officer immediately issued an order to the other crew members.

Then they landed on the shore and set out on the spot to wipe out the river bandits.

However, the situation was as easy as he thought.

As soon as there was movement here, the people over there immediately ran away. In the end, they just caught the little eyed boat boss named Fugui.

The officer personally interrogated him and tortured him. However, Fugui just refuses to open his mouth.

In the end, Zhao Zilong came forward, and he said to Fugui: "Fugui, you don't recognize me?" I've been hiding in that wooden box. ”

"Huh? You? After Fugui recognized it, he immediately panicked, and had to explain: "Our commander, as well as the deputy commander, are the widows of the Northeast Army. Since the disbandment of the Northeast Army, they have lost their food and clothing, and they have not been able to return home, so they have been forced to do the business of robbing homes here......"

When Zhao Zilong heard the end, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The root cause of all this is caused by the devils. However, although he sympathized with those female river bandits, he was also indignant.

Seeing that the twelve Fuzhou traders were safe and the wooden boxes were salvaged from the water, the school official breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, the head on my neck has finally been saved." ”

Subsequently, Zhao Zilong explained to the school official that he was going to Xuzhou, and the other party let him get on the steamboat, take the captured Fugui, and go all the way north.

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After arriving in Suzhou, the sky was bright.

More than a dozen traders in Fuzhou also sobered up, and Zhao Zilong inquired about it and learned that these people were not simple traders, but sailors with unique skills.

Because they walk on the Ganjiang River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River all year round, they have all practiced a good water nature. This time, they specially rushed from Jiangnan to help Xuzhou, just to arrange deep-water mines in the canal north of Xuzhou before the devils arrived.

After they separated, Zhao Zilong could only abandon the boat and go ashore.

Along the way, he stayed overnight and came to the town of Gurao the next morning.

Seeing a shop called 'Northeast Bun Shop' in the distance, Zhao Zilong touched his stomach and walked in.

The women of the Northeast have a passion that is not found elsewhere. As soon as Zhao Zilong entered the store, the proprietress immediately greeted him: "Big brother, come to a drawer of buns?" ”

"Is there any ground beef?" Zhao Zilong asked.

"Ground beef?" The proprietress couldn't help but look embarrassed, "Now that the national disaster is at hand, there are not even many big meat fillings." So, how about I'll bring you a drawer of minced chicken? ”

"Okay." Zhao Zilong nodded, and said: "It's just black rice porridge in the northeast, I need two more bowls." I'm walking all the way and need to drink a little more water. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look back, and saw two suspicious people walking into the store.

Both of them were dressed in old gray robes, and although they were dressed like merchant fellows, their eyes always revealed the fierce light of thieves.

Zhao Zilong quickly retracted his gaze, and he quietly pressed down the brim of the hat on his head.

The two men didn't speak, but gestured to the proprietress with gestures. It roughly means two drawers of steamed buns and a few bowls of porridge.

After a while, the proprietress took out Zhao Zilong's buns, and happened to pass by the two people, one of whom had already reached out to pick it up, but the proprietress bypassed.

The man immediately showed a fierce light, like a fox that bites people, and said viciously: "Boss, where are our buns?" ”

As soon as Zhao Zilong heard that the other party was speaking half-baked Chinese, he immediately glanced at it again, and this time he found that the waists of the two were faintly bulging.

His heart sank, and he guessed what it was.

Now Zhao Zilong has concluded that the people dressed up by those two guys are not simple. If you don't guess wrong, their real identity must be devils.

Then, he pretended to be just waiting for breakfast and did nothing, but in fact he secretly watched the actions of the two men.

However, he noticed that the two men were looking at him intently.

He was wearing a black robe and a black round hat, and although he didn't understand it, he still added a little vigilance.

"Guest officer," that proprietress is thirty years old, it is the prime of life. She smiled slightly and said, "Guest officer, please wait, the buns you want will come up soon——"

The two devils scolded in a low voice, just urging.

Then, the proprietress came to deliver the porridge again, she saw that Zhao Zilong was paying attention to the two guys, but her eyes fluttered, she reached out and tapped twice on the table, and then left.

Zhao Zilong understood, pretended to break a bun, and the oil and water flowed to his hands, making him scold.

"Oh, guest officer, look at the hot, it's hot," the proprietress heard it and immediately picked it up, "You come to the back quickly, rinse it with cold water, just rinse it with cold water." ”

Zhao Zilong followed her to the back, and the proprietress put aside her husband who was sweating, and said in a low voice: "Guest officer, those two unknown guys should be devils." ”

"Huh?" Zhao Zilong was slightly stunned. Although he guessed that the proprietress would recognize the two devils, he didn't understand why he called himself in?